Species FishChinook Salmon

Chinook Salmon

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

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Illustration of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

The Chinook, or king salmon, is the largest Pacific salmon, silver at sea and darkening as it returns upriver to spawn. Its epic freshwater migrations feed bears, eagles, and forests alike.

Habitat
North Pacific Ocean and the rivers where it spawns
Diet
Insects and crustaceans when young; fish and squid at sea
How common
Uncommon

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